The Belgian ZERO artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) became known as the painter of light streams and colour spectra. He experimented not only with light, but also with movement and the invisible as means to evoke natural mechanisms and to reveal universal interrelationships between human beings and the surrounding world. He used geometric principles – his passion for geometry was born out of his interest in mathematics and (Greek) philosophy – as the basis for harmony. Verheyen never gave up on traditional media and materials such as the canvas, paint, and brushes to search for the essence of our nature. 

Jef Verheyen - Window on Infinity

(c) Scan: CKV, 2022 - Jef Verheyen Archive
Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve, 1979
Jef Verheyen Archive
Book , 29,5 x 21 cm
Ink on paper

Lay-out and realisation: Frank Maes
Photography: Bernd Urban
Print: Printing house J. Paeshuys n.v.
Photogravure: De Buck & Paulich - De Schutter

 

Pic du Midi

Je suis devenu maître dans l’artisanat de l’intelligence. Nakijken in Le Cantique des Cantiques